Interview recorded by Herman Peters OFM for his thesis “Enkele hoofdstukken uit het sociaal-religieuze leven van een Dani-groep” published Dekker en van de Vegt, Utrecht, 1965. The interview was recorded in 1963-1964 in the Baliem Valley in West Papua. The interview is in the local language and the subject is Lugage Isasin (sini). In the thesis Sini isasin is mentioned as a ceremony involving specific kinds of grass which are put in a stewing pit while preparing pork meat, potato kinds and vegetables. The amount and the way in which the grasses have stewed is seen as indicating the future. It forebodes the number of enemies or own people that will be killed in the war. See pages 92-93, 99 and 167.
The thesis has also been published in English with the title: "Some observations of the social and religious life of a Dani-group", Jayapura Lembaga Anthropologi Univ. Cenderawasih, 1975.
The tape is part of the audio collection of the foundation PACE Papua Cultural Inheritance. For more information or any messages or correspondence contact huublems81@gmail.com or srgales@ziggo.nl.
On the cover is also a reference to probably the typed-out interview as the scripta of Herman Peters OFM page till end. Until now the scripta have not been located.

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